# Actors

ActorBio:
Played junk dealer in movie Cotton Comes to Harlem


# Genres

GenreDescr:
Primarily rural setting and characters, such as The Andy Griffith Show or Petticoat Junction.


GenreDescr:
Comedy as social commentary. Example would be All in the Family, M*A*S*H*.


GenreDescr:
General category for drama; excludes police and hospital dramas.


GenreDescr:
Primary setting, characters, and themes revolve around police work, such as Hill Street Blues.


GenreDescr:
Primarily urban setting, themes, and characters, eg, The Bob Newhart Show, Friends


GenreDescr:
Primary setting is hospital, such as ER.


GenreDescr:
General category for comedy; includes shows like Leave It To beaver.


GenreDescr:
All other programs that defy categorization


# Networks

NetwNotes:
CBS was one of the largest radio networks in the 1930s and, along with NBC, the earliest broadcaster of regularly scheduled programs in 1941.


NetwNotes:
In the 1950s, ABC was the fourth network, after the now-defunct Dumont. By the Seventies it had managed to become a ratings leader.


NetwNotes:
Barry Diller was  instrumental in starting up Fox. Started in the mid-1980's, its initial programs were a late-night talk show with Joan Rivers and then Married with Children.


# Programs

ProgSynopsis:
Sheriff Andy Taylor, a widower, raises his young son in Mayberry, a small town in North Carolina

ProgNotes:
Spin-offs were Gomer Pyle, USMC and Mayberry RFD


ProgSynopsis:
Psychiatrist Bob Hartley tends to his motley crew of patients and his lovely wife in Chicago


ProgSynopsis:
Fred Sanford and his son Lamont struggle to make their junk business pay the bills in Los Angeles.


ProgSynopsis:
Wacky but lovable Lucy Ricardo is always cooking up trouble for her bandleader husband Ricky and their landlords Fred and Ethel, all of whom live together in a New York apartment


ProgNotes:
Show changed locale to San Francisco in 1965, where Lucy played a secretary to Mr. Mooney.


ProgNotes:
Show ran on NBC through 1993 and then on ABC


ProgSynopsis:
Ed the talking horse always has something important to say, but only to his kindly owner Wilbur


ProgSynopsis:
Single, turning 30, Mary Richards finds love and friendship in Minneapolis, where she works for her gruff but warm station manager Lou


ProgSynopsis:
Rhoda is happily married, then alone again, as is, eventually her mother


ProgSynopsis:
Rob Petrie, head comedy writer of the Allan Brady Show, and his lovely wife Laura enjoy life in suburban New York.


ProgSynopsis:
There's toil and trouble, but lots of laughs, when Samantha the Witch marries ad exec Darrin (or Derwood, as her mother calls him).

ProgNotes:
A 1977 spin-off called Tabitha failed quickly.


ProgSynopsis:
Neatnik photographer Felix Unger and sloppy sportswriter Oscar Madison try to avoid killing each other in their New York apartment


ProgSynopsis:
The signpost up ahead says lots of great acting and writing in these tales of the mysterious and supernatural.


ProgSynopsis:
New York Jewish doctor Fleischmann (as his love/hate romantic interest Maggie calls him) is forced to serve a stint in Cicely, Alaska and becomes a person.


ProgSynopsis:
Tales of the 4077 MASH unit as they try to save their patients and themselves during the Korean War


ProgSynopsis:
The Bundys: shoe salesman Al, Oprah-watching wife Peg, carefree daughter Kelly, and pathetic son Bud make trouble for themselves but mostly their neighbors


ProgSynopsis:
Comedy variety show with lots of laughs and more than a little social commentary


ProgSynopsis:
Stacey pretends to be the wife of ad exec Ned to help him in business and gets to live in a fancy New York apartment


# Roles

RoleNotes:
Foxx had stormy relationship with producers, whom he publicly criticized.


